c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products." — Beth Ditto
"I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child." — Maurice Sendak
"If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed." — Rachael Ray
"Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them." — Abbie Hoffman
"Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it." — John Charles Polanyi
"When everything is lonely I can be my best friend." — Conor Oberst
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony." — Benjamin Britten
"From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America." — Barbara Olson
"In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed." — Iain Banks
"I was in the postseason twice and I'm thankful for that." — Ryne Sandberg
"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth." — George Washington
"It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day." — Marilu Henner
"You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself." — Drew Barrymore
"All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know." — Sonia Sotomayor
"If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food." — Hugh Jackman
"Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly." — Christopher Fry
"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home." — James Joyce
"The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country." — Ed Case
"A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad." — Robert Wagner
"The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point." — David Cameron
"I really love 'Soapdish.' I wish 'Soapdish' had more of a moment because I felt that that is a really strong, funny movie. Kevin Kline is hilarious in that movie." — Elisabeth Shue
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." — Plato
"When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes." — Ernie Banks
"A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation." — Stanislav Grof
"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts." — James Joyce
"Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food." — Sammy Davis, Jr.
"While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience." — Craig Kelly
"Without the way, there is no going without the truth, there is no knowing without the life, there is no living." — Thomas a Kempis
"And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us." — Ian Rush
"People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask." — David Byrne
"I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it." — Adrien Brody
"I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person." — Michelle Wie
"Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child." — Marilyn Monroe
"My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s." — John Cusack
"Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work." — Leona Lewis
"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can." — Paul Tournier
"There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do." — Anais Nin
"Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America." — Arnold Schwarzenegger
"The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science." — Alton Brown
"The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow." — Geraldine Brooks
"Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic." — Jerry Saltz
"My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves." — Carre Otis
"Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done." — William James
"Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds." — Charles Caleb Colton
"Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery." — Richard Powers
"No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India." — Hu Shih
"All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women." — Germaine Greer
"Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin." — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not." — Brooke Shields
"The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort." — Dagmara Dominczyk
"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset." — George MacDonald
"Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about." — Tori Amos
"Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship." — Greg Louganis
"The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential." — Betty Buckley
"When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity." — Joseph Campbell
"I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue." — Paula Deen
"I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe." — Norman Granz
"I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone." — Henry Rollins
"My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life." — Alexander Ludwig
"Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone." — Ramakrishna
"Success comes in waves." — Guy Pearce
"Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith." — Paul Tillich
"I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill." — J. K. Rowling
"Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems." — John Mica
"Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps." — William Blake
"When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out." — Elizabeth Bowen
"At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine." — Peter Carey
"I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I'd never done karaoke before." — Jared Leto
"If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world." — Heinrich Heine
"To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith." — Maggie Gallagher
"I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring." — Steve Yzerman
"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful." — Rita Dove
"A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come." — Denis Waitley
"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles." — Woodrow Wilson
"He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy." — Chanakya
"Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president." — Marlon Wayans
"We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man." — Lyndon B. Johnson
"Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!" — Susan Powter
"It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can." — Sargent Shriver
"Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself." — William Butler Yeats
"American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair." — Jack Kemp
"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball." — Henry L. Stimson
"President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44,000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1, national defense is the first priority of the federal government." — Paul Ryan
"If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie." — Michael Moore
"My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'" — Sally Hawkins
"If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia." — Ron Fournier
"I hear good things about Xbox Live from some of my younger teammates. I think it would be fun to be able to challenge fans all over the world. It would be cool to be able to play some of my friends back home in the States. I'm looking forward to trying it." — Claudio Reyna
"In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education." — Earl Warren
"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver." — Barbara de Angelis
"Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age." — Lydia M. Child
"When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen." — Deborah Norville
"The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power." — Alfred Adler
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity." — Robert Frost
"But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge." — Muhammad Iqbal
"Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude." — Michelle Obama
"I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist." — Donny Osmond
"Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster." — Al Gore
"I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to." — Shakira
"I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run." — Michael Weatherly
"Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press." — Jesse Jackson
"I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening." — Jerzy Kosinski
"Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures." — Seneca
"The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby." — Hilary Swank
"I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president." — Hillary Clinton
"I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to." — Silvio Berlusconi
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago." — Dan Quayle
"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion." — Jack Welch
"It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree." — John F. Kennedy
"My father loved people, children and pets." — Tony Visconti
"No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion." — Abdul Kalam
"Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what." — Charles Stanley
"I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career." — Nolan Ryan
"Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born." — Daisaku Ikeda
"Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass." — Douglas William Jerrold
"I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action." — James Broughton
"Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago." — Barack Obama
"God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty." — Peter Marshall
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." — Arthur Conan Doyle
"I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions." — Alfred Russel Wallace
"I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really." — Steven Patrick Morrissey
"I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more." — Lindsey Buckingham
"I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns." — Tom Hicks
"I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad." — John Edward
"The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals." — Saul Williams
"Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better." — Samuel Beckett
"As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions." — Al Gore
"I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks." — Seann William Scott
"Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family." — Vanessa Hudgens
"I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth." — Venus Williams
"We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably." — Kim Stanley Robinson
"It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully." — Aristotle
"The most violent element in society is ignorance." — Emma Goldman
"To know oneself, one should assert oneself." — Albert Camus
"Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music." — Barry White
"My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control." — Paul Walker
"The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil." — Thomas A. Edison
"The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep." — A. P. Herbert
"People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of." — Dennis Prager
"Dreams have as much influence as actions." — Stephane Mallarme
"Even in this day and age, if you're not married, there are people who are like, 'Awww! Don't worry, it'll happen for you someday.'" — Kristen Wiig
"I was a very undisciplined person but acting was something that actually motivated me to get up in the morning. I hadn't experienced that before, but it was something that really excited me. I think I could be quite self-conscious and it gave me a release." — Rufus Sewell
"People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning." — Clare Short
"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained." — James A. Garfield
"If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow." — Jon Meacham
"I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps." — Trisha Yearwood
"When I was in high school, my friends and I would drive out into the country to abandoned houses and structures... haha... to ghost hunt. We would scare each other so bad! We would sometimes camp out by the abandoned buildings just to scare ourselves! Such good times. The adrenaline of real fear is so cool!" — Keegan Allen
"God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress." — Robert South
"After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty." — Washington Irving
"Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public." — Rod Stewart
"It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people." — Donald Trump
"As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day." — Hilary Rosen
"I am very rich because of 'Chic' - artistically as well as spiritually. It's been an amazing life." — Nile Rodgers
"I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time." — Danny McBride
"That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds." — John Updike
"Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers." — Jackie Chan
"The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world." — Jim Walsh
"And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede." — Dick Gregory
"We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future." — Daniel Carter Beard
"Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been." — Samuel Daniel
"If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good." — Chris Evans
"Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all... . Everybody really, really likes everybody else." — Lizzy Caplan
"Today we're focused on small acquisitions to add technology where necessary. I think it's fair to say we're not out looking for a large one, but I think it's also very fair to say that as a public company you can never say never." — Sanjay Kumar
"The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this." — Chelsea Clinton
"I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects." — David Brainerd
"The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women." — Queen Elizabeth II
"You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there." — Lawrence Kasdan
"It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer." — Juliette Binoche
"When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I'm obsessed with - one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing." — Aziz Ansari
"If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be." — Ziggy Marley
"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it." — Fyodor Dostoevsky
"I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'" — Alice Walker
"I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did." — Jeff Foxworthy
"I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't." — Steve Martin
"Virtue alone has majesty in death." — Edward Young
"There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship." — Jeremy Sisto
"From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours." — David Cameron
"We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion." — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
"Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada." — Paul Prudhomme
"Nature makes woman to be won and men to win." — George William Curtis
"We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people." — Bob Ney
"Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality." — John Lennon
"The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal." — Samuel Richardson
"I have so much respect for my mom and all the women across the world." — Jessica Simpson
"Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life." — Joseph Conrad
"Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s." — Mitch Kapor
"In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on." — Noam Chomsky
"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do." — Norman Douglas
"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value." — Stephen Hawking
"People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular." — Billy Corgan
"I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much." — Janet Evanovich
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers." — Daniel J. Boorstin
"I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry." — Elizabeth Edwards
"Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone." — William Albert Allard
"Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend." — Jewel
"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings." — Gustave Flaubert
"A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them." — Joel Silver
"For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with." — King Abdullah II
"What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil." — James Smithson
"My daily beauty regimen is definitely always in the mornings, and at night, always washing my face with a basic cleanser. I also use a moisturizer with SPF to follow up." — Shay Mitchell
"Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'." — Herbert Spencer
"To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope." — Miguel de Cervantes
"What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone." — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation." — John Witherspoon
"Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent." — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"No great thing is created suddenly." — Epictetus
"I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles." — Rachael Ray
"Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection." — Alban Berg
"We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage." — Michael Shermer
"The best revenge in the world is success." — Suge Knight
"Equal pay isn't just a women's issue when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits." — Mike Honda
"Why be a man when you can be a success?" — Bertolt Brecht
"As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life." — Lee Haney
"Paris is always a good idea." — Audrey Hepburn
"Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion." — Billy Graham
"I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago." — David Knopfler
"There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet." — Gary L. Francione
"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony." — Horace Walpole
"If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man." — Matthew Simpson
"I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries." — John Cameron
"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts." — Will Rogers
"The good man is the friend of all living things." — Mahatma Gandhi
"I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve." — George W. Bush
"I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution." — William J. Clinton
"The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don't go and do their own investigations if it's relationships or politics or anything." — Big Boi
"Luck marches with those who give their very best." — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach." — John S. Herrington
"If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better." — Swami Vivekananda
"I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films." — Jodie Foster
"Learn from your dreams what you lack." — W. H. Auden
"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." — Lao Tzu
"Light is the symbol of truth." — James Russell Lowell
"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity." — Ulysses S. Grant
"Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint." — Gates McFadden
"Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile." — Gary Ryan Blair
"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process." — Max Eastman
"And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure." — Maximilian Schell
"I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me." — Elizabeth Edwards
"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship." — Benjamin Franklin
"The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology." — Basil Bunting
"I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while." — Lady Gaga
"It doesn't matter about money having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end." — Billy Idol
"Death is softer by far than tyranny." — Aeschylus
"Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design." — Christopher Alexander
"I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny." — Taylor Swift
"When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track." — Buck Baker
"Good men must not obey the laws too well." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time." — Oswald Chambers
"Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind." — Lewis Thomas
"I really believe that beauty comes from health - sensible eating and exercise." — Dita Von Teese
"While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact." — Andrea Dworkin
"I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it." — Larry Bird
"After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession." — John D. Rockefeller
"A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!" — Oscar Hammerstein II
"On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food." — Lisa Snowdon
"I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic. If I'm going to eat that type of food, it's going to be the real deal." — Paula Deen
"Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim." — Percy Bysshe Shelley
"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure." — Winston Churchill
"Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things." — Dionne Warwick
"I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace." — Thurston Moore
"I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs." — Dierks Bentley
"I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me." — George Papandreou
"A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production." — Robert Anton Wilson
"Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony." — Emma Goldman
"I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years." — Warren Buffett
"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into." — Henry Ward Beecher
"You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS." — Bono
"To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature." — Adam Smith
"It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people." — Mark Harmon
"As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it." — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
"Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia." — Judith Viorst
"The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register." — Bob Verdi
"Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against." — Thomas Carlyle
"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong." — Jeremy Bentham
"I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life." — Pamela Anderson
"The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology." — Eric Allman
"I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100." — Jack Kemp
"Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality." — Plato
"My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'" — Demetri Martin
"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other." — Erma Bombeck
"I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength." — Barbara Corcoran
"Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment." — Barry Commoner
"You can't win unless you learn how to lose." — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death." — Mike Myers
"At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I could just feel the affection and the positive feelings that they were exuding. It was actually moving. I remember thinking, 'I'm not worthy,' because 'Star Wars' is so much bigger than all of us." — Mark Hamill
"As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time." — Tom Waits
"Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below." — Alexander Pope
"We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself." — Rupert Everett
"I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment." — Anna Deavere Smith
"Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy." — Anna Chlumsky
"I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes." — Eleanor Tomlinson
"Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant." — Epictetus
"I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life." — Drew Barrymore
"I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton." — Dorothy Malone
"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning." — Winston Churchill
"If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica." — Danny Glover
"I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass." — Jason Reitman
"My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight." — John F. Kennedy
"Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance." — Al Goldstein
"I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them." — Janelle Monae
"I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave." — Elizabeth Hurley
"I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber." — Haley Reinhart
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." — Winston Churchill